Lane, Ernest Olaf

Title

Lane, Ernest Olaf
Ernest Olaf Lane
E O Lane

Description

40 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Ernest Olaf 'Cappy' Lane (b. 1916, 402057 Royal Australian Air Force) and contains his log books, documents, and photographs. He flew operations as a pilot with 216 Squadron in North Africa and 460 Squadron in Europe.

The collection includes one album with photos of personnel, aircraft, and North Africa scenes.

The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Judy Lane and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan.

Date

2019-01-10

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

Lane, EO

Collection Items

Airmen and aircraft
Top left a man wearing a side cap at the controls of a Wellington. Top right a group of six men standing under the nose of a Wellington. Three of the men, including one in an officer's cap, are standing and the others are crouched on the ground in…

Airmen and North Africa scenes
Top left a pilot wearing a leather flying helmet at the controls of a Wellington.
Top middle a man in shorts and flying boots standing by the rear gun turret of a Wellington.
Top right, detail of the Senussi Zawiya in Jaghbub.
Bottom left a…

Aircraft and North Africa scenes
Top right four uniformed men standing under the nose of a Wellington in a desert landscape. Middle left looking down Bardiyah coastline. A moustachioed man wearing traditional dress in a desert landscape with pitched tents beyond. Bottom left a group…

Wellington bomber and Sallum Bay
Top right five uniformed men in short sleeves and shorts crouching in the shade under the body of a Wellington MkII. There is a ladder leaning against the nose of the aircraft and a bomb is underneath the fuselage. Middle left a pilot looking out of…

Aircraft views
Top left looking down on a open sandy landscape with a road a cluster of buildings.
Top right a Bristol Bombay on the sandy ground with rows of pitched tents beyond
Middle right a view of clouds from an aircraft.
Bottom left two uniformed men in…

North Africa scenes
Top left, top right and bottom right aerial views of the coast line near Bardiyah showing roads and buildings.
Middle left a burial site with 63 individual Afrika Korps graves marked with names on the crossbars. The graves are in an open space with…

Wellington, river scenes and Turin
A group of 35 men arranged in two rows, one of 18 standing and, in front, a seated row of 17. They are arranged in front of a Wellington which is in a hangar. The Wellington has the word Bombay written underneath the front gun turret. Three men are…

Wreckage on the beach
The crash site and wreckage of a Wellington. The aircraft has crashed on the sand and rocks on the coast of the sea. It has lost its undercarriage, nose and pilot's area has suffered extensive damage damage. There are parts of the aircraft around the…

Aircraft wreckage
Top left crash site of an aircraft an open, flat desert landscape. There is a swastika on the tail of the aircraft. Top right a damaged Me 109 supported on wooden cradle, without its wheels. One propeller blade is damaged and the wings are lying on…

North Africa scenes
Mausoleum of Sudun Amir Majlis, Cairo. Top right is a street scene of a row of flat roofed buildings with an oil drum with a sign in the roadway with a lorry and other vehicles. Centre left the altar in the damaged Catholic Church. Centre right a…

Local scenes
A central two storey building with three facades with single storey wings either side, set in parkland. The building has a portico and the roof extends to create a veranda on the ground floor.
Top left is a single storey building with a colonnade…

Squadron and Nigeria scenes
Top left 358 service personnel in rows in front of a Wellington, which is inside a hangar,
Top right a group of two women and two young men standing by a low wall. The wall is next to a utility pole with single storey buildings with trees and other…

Aircraft crew
Six men standing alongside the fuselage of an aircraft. Four are wearing flying boots, two in flying suits and two in flying jackets. The two other men are in full overalls and work shoes.

Pilot standing by a Me 109
A man in uniform and side cap at the tail of an aircraft in a desert landscape. The rear wheel has been removed and the back of the aircraft is supported by metal struts. A sandbag, attached with ropes lies across aircraft, in front of the rear…

Man in a garden
An airman with rolled up sleeves, shorts and long woollen socks standing, with his hands in his pockets, in the garden of a building. The building has a portico with a balustraded balcony, supported by columns, on the first floor.

In the shade of a Wellington
Two men alongside a Wellington. One is standing to the starboard side and one is sat in the shade of the aircraft. A second Wellington can be seen in the background.

Amongst the tents
A man in short sleeved shirt with breast pockets, shorts and long socks standing alongside a row of pitched tents in a desert landscape.

Man with a plaster cast
Two men standing in a sandy area in front of a utility pole with single storey buildings, with deep verandas in the background. The man standing on the left has his arm in plaster and wears a sling with a short sleeved shirt and shorts. The man…

Men in greatcoats
Two servicemen wearing officer peak caps and belted greatcoats. They are standing, with their hands in their pockets, amongst rocks with a body of water beyond.

Turin
Target photograph of Turin with no ground features visible through light flashes. Captioned '4' and '1736 BIN 7/8/8/43 // NT 8 18000 - 036 0059 TURIN RD B 1x4000lb. 540x4lb. 40x30lb. INC P10 F?L LANE O.460.'.

Turin
Target photograph of Turin with no ground features vitiable through light flashes. Captioned '10' and '1739 BIN 7/7/8/43 // 8" 18000 - TURIN RD B. 1x4000lb. 540x 4lb. 40x 30lb. inc. P.10 F/L Lane. O.460.'.

Turin
Target photograph of Turin with no ground visible through light flashes. Captioned '8' and '1738 Bin 7/8/8/43 NT 8' 18000 TURIN RD B 1x 4000lb. 540x4lb. 40x 30lb. P10 F/L LANE 0.460'.

Turin
Target photograph of Turin with some ground visible in the lower part of the photograph through light flashes. Captioned '8' and '1320 Bin 12/13/7/43 NT 8' 19000 - 132 021 Turin RD B 1x 4000lb. 40x 30lb. 450x4lb. P10 F/O Lane 0.460'.

Turin
Target photograph of Turin with no ground visible through light flashes. Captioned '6' and '1319 Bin 12/13/07/43 NT 8" 19000' TURIN RD B 1x 4000lb. 40x 30lb. 450x 4lb. P10 F/L LANE 0.460'.

Turin
Target photograph of TURIN with no ground visible through light flashes. Captioned '3' and '1735 Bin 7/8/8/43 NT 8' 18000' Turin RD B 1x 4000lb. 540x 4lb. 40x 30lb. inc. P10 F/L LANE 0.460'.
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